Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [conj] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever you choice of fire , whatever the decor of your room — you can be sure to find something that 's just right for you … |
| 2 | ‘ Sometimes they 've managed to find one that is n't even scheduled but I 'm dreading getting stuck they 'll have to send me home in a taxi . ’ |
| 3 | The knowing use of the conventions of the detective story to write something that is not quite a detective story not only follows a rather well-established practice in post-war Italian writing , of which the novels of Gadda and Sciascia are the best-known examples ( cf. |
| 4 | I would suggest to you , in short , that erm just as Locke 's labour theory of property is a theory is not a comprehensive theory about what constitutes a legitimate claim to own something but is really a theory about how private property comes to be legitimately created erm so his theory of social contract is not a theory about how we acquire political obligations , it 's a theory about how legitimate civil societies come to be established . |
| 5 | Under TA 1988 , s677(10) there shall be treated as a capital sum paid to the settlor by the trustees of the settlement any sum which is paid by them to a third party at the settlor 's direction or by virtue of the assignment by him of his right to receive it or is otherwise paid or applied by the trustees for the benefit of the settlor and which would not otherwise be treated as a capital sum paid to the settlor . |
| 6 | Now if you want to see something that 's up on a shelf at the side , ask one of the helpers wearing a red jersey and they 'll take it down for you and show it to you . |
| 7 | Erm I think we 're asking the panel on doctrine to do something that is not really within their remit at the moment . |
| 8 | If one were to do something that is statistically nonsensical — and when has that stopped a security analyst in his tracks ? — and make a sum of the percentage changes since the start , bookish securities have outperformed the UK market by 64% . |
| 9 | We 're not doing it too strongly because of course it is quite difficult to , for an English ear perhaps to get attuned to it if one was doing it very very strong , so I 'm trying to do one that is n't er too alien to an English ear . |
| 10 | Ruth Grigg of the Family Planning Association , said : ‘ The temptation for women who have their Pills changed will be just not to bother with contraception at all or to use something that 's less effective . ’ |
| 11 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that slightly depressing statement that of Eyre 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could immediately follow that by saying just because there 's a word for it maybe you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self-validating in a sense . |
| 12 | As a non-philosopher I always used to find that a slightly depressing statement , that of Ayer 's about beauty , and it seemed to me that one could perhaps immediately follow that by saying ‘ Just because there 's a word for it maybe , you have it because you like it and you want to use it and is n't that self- validating in a sense ? ’ |
| 13 | The position of the subject here is quite simply that he is free to do anything that is not prohibited by law but that , by reason of the doctrine of the sovereignty of Parliament , anything can be prohibited or required . |
| 14 | I do n't think I 'm gon na get that much joy myself , cos their reluctant are n't they to do anything that 's not new . |
| 15 | You let everything go for weeks and weeks and obviously find just getting a meal tiring enough and you know I do n't want you to do anything that 's too much for you . |
| 16 | The girl 's brother attempts to save her but is fatally wounded by the Marquis ' brother 's sword . |
| 17 | The beliefs and ideas that organisations hold about who they are and what they are trying to do and what their environment is like have a much greater tendency to realise themselves than is usually believed . |
| 18 | Anyway Charlton is usually slow to change something that is n't broken ( rightly so ) . |
| 19 | If you eat the right foods and take some exercise you will begin to understand and know your body better and you will be able to discern something that is just a muscular ache from carrying heavy shopping from a pain that you have never encountered before . |
| 20 | That 's the only I mean that 's th that 's the real problem with this thing It 's one the the difficulties you end up with You see you must remember to multiply everything that 's there by the number you want to multiply , not just half of it . |
| 21 | The obvious difficulty with behaviouristic accounts of mental states is that , although in a way they do provide what was wanted , i.e. an account of mental states in which they are non-contingently related to behaviour , still they appear to ignore everything that is characteristically mental . |
| 22 | The tragedy of the publishing overkill in this field , of course , is that many authors are persuaded into grinding away for years to produce something that is perfectly competent but totally unnecessary . |
| 23 | In some counts , a signal of distress but is attempting to solicit something but is usually what we would classify in our abstract concept of parental investment . |
| 24 | The word ‘ gorgon ’ has more recently come to mean anything that is exceptionally abhorrent . |
| 25 | This gives the buyer the opportunity to query anything that is not entirely clear . |